The Bond showing is located west of Bald Range Creek, approximately 15 kilometres north-northwest of Kelowna.

This area is underlain by greenschist metamorphic rocks of the Permian Chapperon Group which have been intruded by granitic rocks of the Middle Jurassic Okanagan Batholith. Outliers of Eocene Penticton Group volcanic and sedimentary rocks overlie the older units.

Locally, quartz veins in a small quartz diorite plug host gold mineralization. Two narrow, 0.2 and 0.5 metre wide, quartz veins carry fine-grained pyrite. The veins have a general east-west strike, varying from 240 to 275 degrees, with moderate southerly dips varying from 30 to 42 degrees. The surface outcrops are limonitic and leached of gold and silver values.

In 1983, a grab sample from the 0.2 metre wide vein assayed 12.0 grams per tonne gold and 7 grams per tonne silver, while samples from the 0.5 metre vein assayed 4.0 grams per tonne gold (Assessment Report 12148).

Work History

During 1983 through 1987, Neall Lenard completed programs of prospecting, geological mapping, minor test pitting and trenching and geochemical (rock, silt and soil) sampling on the area as the Bond 1-7 claims.